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Top 40 Winter Quotes

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Winter is both a harsh and beautiful season. It signifies both death and cleanliness. With that in mind, check out the top 40 winter quotes.

#40 – 30. Winter Quotes

40. Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. Victor Hugo

39. Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. Yoko Ono

38. There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. Ruth Stout

37. Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean. Mehmet Murat Ildan

36. Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. Anne Morrough Lindbergh

35. Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. Pietro Aretino

34. Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: It is the time for home. Edith Sitwell

33. The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter. Benjamin Alire Saenz

32. He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. John Burroughs

31. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. J.R.R. Tolkien

30. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. Richard Adams

#29 – 20. Winter Quotes

29. There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special. Carol Rifka Brunt

28. Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

27. I like the cold weather. It means you get work done. Noam Chomsky

26. Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration. Anamika Mishra

25. People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov

24. Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. John Boswell

23. He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter…. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. John Burroughs

22. In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

21. I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. Andrew Wyeth

20. The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination. Terri Guillemets

#19 – 10. Winter Quotes

19. No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland

18. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses the so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. Lewis Carroll

17. In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake

16. To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold. Aristotle

15. I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. Bill Watterson

14. Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. Terri Guillemets

13. In a way Winter is the real Spring – the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature. Edna O’Brien

12. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck

11. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet

10. The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. Gary Zukav

#9 – 1. Winter Quotes

9. Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. Montenegrin Proverb

8. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. William Shakespeare

7. Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. Hugh Macmillan

6. Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert

5. Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. Stanley Crawford

4. How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! Thomas Wentworth Higginson

3. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley

2. Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. Mignon McLaughlin

1.Winter forms our character and brings out our best. Tom Allen

Ideas for the top 40 winter quotes come from the following sources.[1]Good Housekeeping – 15 Winter Quote That Prove the Beauty of the Season[2]Reader’s Digest – 12 Cozy Quotes About Winter to Help You Embrace the Season[3]Wise Old Sayings – Winter Sayings and Quotes

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